YOU CAN ERASE TIME WITH THESE LITTLE BASTARDS
THESE PENS LOOK GREAT YOU COULD STILL USE PENS
NOT THESE THOUGH YOU WILL NEVER NEED THESE AGAIN
WITE-OUT YOUR STUBBORN FOREHEAD WRINKLE
IN MY DAY WE DIDN’T HAVE THE HANDY KNOB BAR BUT WE KNEW SUCH JOY
YOU ONCE THOUGHT OF BINDERS WITHOUT IMMEDIATELY REMEMBERING MISOGYNY EXISTS
EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT ESCAPE THE ALLURE OF THE PAST LOOK AT THEIR PENCIL CASES
WHAT HAVE YOU BECOME WHY NOT ASK A LOCKER MIRROR
Tags: back to school shopping, death is coming, school supplies, shopping, these things look incredible, you’re old
Ooh that pencil case! Fantasy office-supply shopping is the funnest.
A couple years ago an office store near me went out of business and had a huge sale. It was the most fun. And now I have enough mini Post-its (at 75% off!) to last my entire life.
I thought the locker mirror was an iPad.
See, I thought it was an e-reader. So I guess it shows me exactly what I have become.
Does that pencil case have a dial that says “Poop”?
It is also has a “horny” indicator.
I don’t think the baked/mashed/fried knob is about potatoes.
I also like that “mashed” is right below the poop meter, so it looks like POOP MASHED.
damn. I really wanted it until I saw that. 🙁
YOUR OFFICE IS TOO COLD TO WEAR NEW CLOTHES BUT WHATEVER
UNTRUE, MY OFFICE IS FREEZING AND I THEREFORE REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CLOTHING
I have a theory that office property managers don’t understand how thermostats work. “Oh look, it’s going to be hotter than usual outside, let’s set the AC to 65 today.” NO. YOU ARE DUMB.
“But it’s not cold in the front office!” THAT’S BECAUSE THE FRONT OFFICE HAS WINDOWS WITH ACTUAL SUNLIGHT, YOU CRETIN.
BUY THESE SIX BOOKS FOR $500 BECAUSE YOU HAVE CHAPTERS DUE THE FIRST DAY
BUY ALL NEW SCRUBS WITH YOUR SCHOOL’S LOGO ON THEM BECAUSE YOU’RE REQUIRED TO, OKAY THAT’S $100
WHAT YOU DIDN’T GET A STETHOSCOPE YET OR WHITE SHOES OR A WATCH OR A TUNING FORK OR A REFLEX HAMMER DIDN’T YOU KNOW NURSING SCHOOL WAS EXPENSIVE
Stationery is appropriate FOR ALL AGES OK
<small>Do you love stationery as much as me ok great, good, share links?
For example I am obsessed with this store: http://www.muji.us/store/stationery.html</smal…
god I suck at fancy commenting, but muji is a japanese brand that has really simple yet cute/beautiful things and I would like to buy everything they sell now but I’m broke right now and I’m bummed out about it. Also if you want to be my pen pal exclusively so we can mail each other japanese stationery I will totally be faithful to you 4ever
Well thanks a lot for that link, now I’ve got you to blame for my coming bankruptcy. (A translucent memo pad??)
omg!!!!
the little keyboard memo pads they sell!!!
i am going to be obsessed with that store now, too~
Those are great! I really like the pen holder clip, too.
As a former gel pen die-hard, these are the best pens (THE BEST):
http://www.amazon.com/Sharpie-Fine-Point-Colored-…
My only beef with the Sharpie pens is that you pretty much have to hold them straight up and down. The gel pens worked better at a slant.
back to school shopping was so influential on me that i now collect stationery and stationery supplies.
there’s a huge box of pretty writing paper and envelopes in my art supplies cabinet. also i own, uhm, 12(?) fountain pens now and something like forty miniature bottles of ink (and i subscribe to Ink Drop at gouletpens.com, so I get 5 new 2oz samples every month). i also have a nice set of notebooks and pen cases and little stickies and paperclips because you NEVER KNOW when you’ll need them.
that and i’m a receptionist and i like to use handwritten things for notes and stuff because my computer is crap.
levenger, see jane work, jetpens, office depot… they hurt my poor, broke heart sometimes. so many cute and awesome stationery and desk supplies.
(i had a hugenormous collection of Jelly Roll pens in high school. I needed THREE makeup bags to store them in my locker.) (over the summer, i got to do supplies ordering for work while the normal person was on maternity leave and it was SO EXCITING to pick out paper reams and boxes of pens and find the best price and also pick out the best options. i highly recommend the office depot sugar cane paper pads, by the way)
Love me some Levenger. Circa notebooks and fountain pens make boring work meetings so much more bearable.
Circa notebooks!!!
I wish I were a writer or less lazy artist/crafty type, so that I would have an excuse to buy and use those. They are so amazing.
Yes! I love my circa notebooks and planner. One of my student workers is fascinate with them: “Witchcraft!”
Levenger is great for gifts (especially grad gifts). I use it for all my monogrammed leather-goods needs.
Wait this sounds so cool. Would you ever think of submitting a post about fancy stationary things?! I would read the heck out of it.
I don’t know if it would be very good! But I could put together something about how to have fancy show-offy pens without breaking the bank. because fountain pens are my dearest love ♥ but i am poor and am on a strict stationery budget.
Hey now. Some of us still use colored pencils on a regular basis because we find coloring to be therapeutic and oh yes, did you know that there are coloring books for grown-ups? http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-col…
WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE
Welcome to the adult coloring book posse. Here’s your complimentary (but high-quality) pencil sharpener.
OMG bookmarking those for when the BBs are old enough!
(to not wreck them while mama is BUSY coloring)
Had a grown-up coloring night last winter with booze and coloring books and shit tons of crayons. A++ would recommend to anyone.
So did I – it was the best! We made fake mustaches out of construction paper too.
Oh.
Oh my.
WHICH ONE TO GET, is the question!
I can highly recommend the paisley one!
Thanks! I like that they’re just geometric patterns and not objects. Filling in an actual tree or animal = stressful. Filling in nice shapes and blocks and squiggles = lovely.
The best drinking game I know is where you have two identical colouring books, fill in one picture sober, then the other same one a few hours later.
A coworker just bought coloring books featuring dudes (think Channing Tatum, ASkars), Ryan Gosling (he has HIS OWN), and 90s icons (Fresh Prince on the cover). I am unreasonably excited about this and am bookmarking those pencils so that I am adequately prepared.
I used to keep crayons in my bag all the time. They came in handy more often than you might think.
I was a die-hard Dover girl when I was younger and am still on their e-mail list. After looking at those, I think it’s time to buy some colored pencils, a couple books, and a dime bag.
THANK YOU I JUST BOUGHT A FRESH BOX OF CRAYONS WHEN I WAS DOING MY SCHOOL SHOPPING AND I DIDN’T KNOW WHY
AND NOW I KNOW
I WAS PREPARING FOR YOUR POST
*HIGH-FIVING A MILLION ANGELS*
Have actually bought a new backpack. And bicycle helmet. They came free with a terrified gaze into the abyss, accompaniment provided by the susurrus of baby art students next door, all cigarettes and fundamental lack of debt policy comprehension.
also also i ADORE buying new planners every year but because i always got school-issued July-June ones, i have never been able to bring myself to waste half a year’s worth of planner so i only buy academic year ones now? and i just bought the BEST EVER from Rhodia. it’s the Webplanner (I got it at GouletPens.com because they are my favorites). It also comes in regular year form, but you guys. It is almost as amazing at the Habonichi Techo that I’ve been lusting after for years but is way too expensive and also is complicated to import from Japan.
I heard that they recently discontinued the school-issued planners at my alma mater because everyone just uses electronic calendars now. I’m unreasonably sad about this.
that is such a shame!
I know there are much fewer options available at the university where I work, but they still exist because SOME people need to have handwritten notes to help remember things.
The local elementary & high schools still use them because it’s an easy way for teachers to communicate to parents and teach kids responsibility or something, at least.
I am just suck at using computers and the like to organize my life. I am extremely visual/physical in my memory, so it helps a lot to write in different colors and remember where something is on the page and in a specific color, or whatever. I have to make index cards whenever I’m sorting music or ebook files on my computer, because I just can’t organize them properly otherwise. (And it’s not like I haven’t spent my life on computers. Maybe it’s that I used them solely for fun until I got to college in 2002?)
Sad! Our college planners came with useful stickers (Test Day! Game Day! Workout! Coffee Date!) which I loved beyond reason even if half of them didn’t apply to me and therefore were never used.
Mine didn’t have stickers. JEALOUS.
Aaah I just googled Habonichi Techo and I really really want one of their planners, thanks a lot, as if I needed to be lusting after something else!!
Habonichi Techo planners are so amazing and so out of reach for me. 🙁 I wish I lived near a Kinokuniya so at least maybe sometimes I could SEE one. Maybe touch one? (I hear they import a few in April now and then? maybe just in California or New York?)
Goulet Pens have started carrying a similar type of modular notebook lately, and they just got in a special limited edition version, but it’s completely different in that the modular part is all kept together by rubber bands, which I don’t like at all.
But, really, 5 years now I’ve been looking at the Habonichi Techo site and sighing at my lack of fortune to have access to Japanese stationery shops. It’s actually a big influence in my attempts to learn to read kanji, because I wanted to be able to figure out what the text on the images said, that google couldn’t translate for me…
I took 3 years of Japanese classes in college for fun and I can make out quite a few kanji but am still nowhere near reading fluently. Or even intermediately. But my great love of japanese stationery knows no bounds!! 🙂
I know moleskine made/makes an 18 month one which is PERFECT for transferring to calendar year. But, I mean, academic year >>> calendar year…
Oh, cool! I’ll look into it if I decide not to get the Rhodia Webplanner next year. 🙂 The only thing is that i’m not terribly fond of moleskine – the paper is usually incompatible with my pens and inks, and they just feel so cheap for the cost. I know they’re super popular, but I’d rather spend that money on higher quality paper.
Yeah, I’m not a moleskine person myself for similar reasons (so much bleed-through with not-bleedy pens) and I’m sure other companies have them. It’s just the one I happened to see once in a Borders.
Forge a love for Dick Blick or Michaels and you will know the pleasures of back-to-school shopping at all times of year. It is cool and bright, often with high ceilings. It smells like new wood and wet paint and you can buy supplies to do all manner of fun projects, on which you will NOT be graded. If paint or charcoal makes you nervous, there are stickers. There are so many pens. Martha Stewart will offer you every shape of hole-punch your heart has ever desired. For the good of your soul, you should always do art projects. But you should not always put your art projects on Pinterest. That is my wise advise, as a late contribution to Nicole’s wise advice post.
And so many rubber stamps!
Speaking of school supplies, SHORT LISA FRANK DOCUMENTARY.
oh em gee. I wonder if Lisa Frank spawned my hoarding tendencies.
Also if you want to get your life sorted out / enjoy planning / love planning but hate Excel / love Excel AND planning and need a tangible planning thing as much or more than a spreadsheet, I thought that this Bullet Journal was a very useful system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfRf43JTqY4
Hey! Hey hey hey! If you really want to buy school supplies, go and sign up for Reddit Gifts for the Teachers 2013. The deadline is September 13 now, and they still need people to send supplies. Okay! I want to buy 5000 erasers!
I’m assuming that if I buy these things through these links The Toast will make some money? (Like how George Takei is always shilling stuff on his FB page by linking to his own Amazon reviews.) Please say yes, and then I will have an excuse to buy these things (colored pencils hooray!) so Nicole and Mallory can buy some things with the money they get from me buying these things.
replying so I can be notified of this, also.
I'm assuming that if I buy these things through these links The Toast will make some money? (Like how George Takei is always shilling stuff on his FB page by linking to his own Amazon reviews.) Please say yes, and then I will have an excuse to buy these things (colored pencils hooray!) so Nicole and Mallory can buy some things with the money they get from me buying these things.
If you feel like taking some time to do it, jisho.org has a great function where you can look up kanji "by radical," so you just sort of assemble the kanji you wanna look up by selecting the pieces it contains. Then you can look up the word/stick them into google translate if you desire. I use it a lot to look up kanji I see written down.
Guys, if you love the rush of shopping for school supplies, but don’t actually need any supplies, you can buy some things and donate them to a food bank or shelter. A lot of them collect school supplies at this time of year. Fun!
(I also do this when I see, like, cookies on sale, and I really want to buy them but I don’t need any cookies. I suppose it’s sad that I get a rush just from purchasing things, and the joke’s on me in the end because I’m still spending money, but it’s a way of giving into temptation without actually cluttering up my house or my kitchen, and at least someone benefits from it besides big school supply.)